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Re:Are Bitcoins The Future? by snitko on Friday April 05, 2013 @06:59AM (#5497623)
There won't be a lot of lost wallets. At least not enough to cause any kind of noticeable effect.
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Re:Are Bitcoins The Future? by dragonwriter on Friday April 05, 2013 @10:46AM (#5498714)
> There won't be a lot of lost wallets. At least not enough to cause any kind of noticeable effect.

With a fixed upper limit on the number of BTC ever issued, if wallets are lost at any non-zero rate, there will eventually be exactly 0 BTC that can be spent.

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